JENIN, Wednesday, May 22, 2024 (WAFA) – Two Palestinians Wednesday evening succumbed to their wounds sustained by Israeli occupation gunfire in the northern West Bank city of Jenin, bringing the death toll in the city and its camp to 10.
Fawaz Hammad, Director of al-Razi Hospital, told WAFA that 18-year-old Sami Amin Ahmad al-Qaisi, 18, a resident of Jenin, died of the wounds he suffered as a result of being shot by Israeli army gunfire in the course of the assault, which began in the early hours of Tuesday.
Meanwhile, 16-year-old Mahmoud Fares Qreini also succumbed to his wounds sustained from Israeli army gunfire, as confirmed by the Health Ministry.
According to eyewitnesses, Qreini was shot in the thigh at the yard of a house where he along with a friend sought shelter after being chased by Israeli soldiers, and they described his killing as assassination.
They confirmed that the gun-toting soldiers surrounded the house, shot Qreini and his friend at zero-point blank range, leaving them to bleed to death. They prevented an ambulance from approaching the scene.
Israeli occupation forces had injured seven Palestinians, including six and detained another as they blew up parts of a house on the second day of the assault.
The occupation forces continued the deliberate destruction of infrastructure and property, including streets, vegetable stalls and commercial shacks, and vehicles, as they occupied scores of houses and turned them into outposts amid violent confrontations.
Israeli snipers deployed on the rooftops or windows of houses and opened fire at Palestinians, ambulances, medics and media staff.
As part of the destruction of infrastructure, the occupation bulldozers Tuesday destroyed the “Martyr George Habash” roundabout in the vicinity of the city center, and the “Martyr Omar Al-Nayef” roundabout.
Earlier, in the morning hours of Tuesday, the occupation forces shot and killed seven Palestinians, including a doctor, a teacher and two youths, and injured 19 others, including a journalist who was shot after the soldiers opened fire on a group of journalists covering the assault.
Among the fatalities was 51-year-old Osayd Kamal Jabareen, the Head of the Surgery Department at Jenin Governmental Hospital, who was killed in the vicinity of the hospital, and Allam Jaradat, a 48-year-old school teacher, who was shot and killed whilst in his vehicle on his way to work.
Two youths, Mahmoud Amjad Hamdneh, 15, and Osama Mohammed Naim Hujeir, 16, were also shot and killed. The other slain Palestinian are Muammar Mohammad Abu Omeira, 50, Amir Issam Abu Omeria, 22, Bassem Mahmoud Turkman, 53, in addition to Jehad Mohammad Taleb, 38.
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